Starry messenger : a book depicting the life of a famous scientist, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, physicist, Galileo Galilei / created and illustrated by Peter Sís.

Sunburst ed.

[New York] : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2000.

1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 31 cm.

"A Sunburst book."

Describes the life and work of the courageous man who changed the way people saw the galaxy, by offering objective evidence that the earth was not the fixed center of the universe.

English

February 24, 2009